THE SEVENFOLD FOUNDATION OF ROMANS EIGHT SUPPORTINGTHE BELIEVERS SECURITYCharles e Whisnant, October 31, 2011Romans 8 Overview of the chapter

1ATHERE IS NO CONDEMNATION FOR THOSE IN CHRIST: 1-42A THE SPIRIT HAS REGENERATED, IS SANCTIFIYING AND WILL RESURRECT THEM: 5-113A THEY ARE NOW THE CHILDREN OF GOD AND FELLOW HEIRS WITH CHRIST: 12-174A THEY ARE SUSTAIANED THROUGH AFFLICTIONS BY HOPE AND THE HELP OF THE SPIRIT: 18-285A THEY HAVE BEEN PREDESTINED TO BE CONFORMED TO THE IMAGE OF GODS SON: 29-306A GOD IS FOR THEM. HE GAVE HIS SON TO DIE FOR THEM. THEREFORE, WHO IS TO CONDEMN THEM? 31-347A NOTHING CAN SEPARATE THEM FROM THE INFINITE AND UNCHANGEABLE LOVE OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS: 33- 39

FIRST PROOF OF OUR ETERNAL SALVATION: 8:2-4 8:1 is true because we have been delivered from the Law in total and are joined to Christ by the Holy Spirit. Here is what Paul says, the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.

Our salvation is guaranteed. How? Because of the work of the Holy Spirit within us. He works in usFirst our sanctification, deliveringus from sin and all its leftovers, And even delivering the body when we get to heaven.

The presence of the Spirit within us is a proof that we are children of God. We need to practice the presence of God in our daily life.God does not just forgive us, and continue to treat us as if we were still under the law. Not at all. That is God does not wait and see if we will break a law and then forgive us.Pau says, We are lifted out of that realm totally. There is an adoption. We become the sons and the children of God, and become heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ.Here is how we must look at our salvation: We are children of God, He has changed our relationship with Him. Therefore how can our salvation fail.

As Gods heirs, we are destined for an inheritance of glory, which God has not only promised us, but is even now preparing for us (John 14) and not only for us, but for the whole creation. The problem of most of us as humans, we are so subjective and we are always thinking of our particular moods and states. Look in the end God is going to remove all that sin has cause to happen. Sin has just polluted all things. Look God is going to refurbish the entire world

Why can I be so confidently, and withsuch assurance, that the final and complete salvation of the Christian is guaranteed?Here it is: Here is the answer. The very character of God is involved in it all; and that if this fails, if it fails with respect to any believer, any believer, just one mine you, the character of God has been destroyed.Have we not said many times in our teaching, and Christ has said, God has said. Remember back in Genesis study on Wednesday Night, GOD HAS A PLAN and A SCHEME and PURPOSE

OF SALVATION. GOD MADE SALVATION WITH A PURPOSE AND A PLAN BEHIND IT.God designed it, He planned it, when? Before the foundation of the world. God has taken steps and stages in the process. The making of the world, the making of mankind, the history of the coming of the Messiah, and much is yet to come. Listen God has set His heart upon us in eternity, and predestinated us. Listen God had eternity in mind before He created anything. He calls us, one by one unto salvation, and He has separated us, and then He calls us to work His work. He works within us by His Spirit from justification to sanctification to glorification. God has said what He has planned and He cannot fail because GOD IS GOD, KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. HE CANNOT FAIL.

He has put His plan and purpose into implementation. God has mention some things that he has planned for eternity. God put into action that would deliver us out of our sinful state. He became man in Jesus Christ. The total, and unconditional guarantee that what He put into motion from the beginning, was the in the person and work of His Son Jesus Christ. We not only have then Gods character, and Gods Word, and Gods plan, but we have this action of God sending His only begotten, beloved Son nto the world with the purpose to die, to be the sin- bearer, to be the Lamb of God. Listen if God planned the death of His Son in order to save us, is it not inconceivable that God would then allow anything to cause His plan to save his elect before the foundation of the World? Can I say, it does not bear thought or even an investigation for a second to believe it would fail.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Said it in 8:1 not Paul is going to prove it.NOTHING CAN. Did you hear that, no sin, no man, not Satan, not a church can.God is unchangeable so therefore nothing can ever make Him, or His Purpose give up.

EIGHT VERSES ABOUT ETERNAL SALVATION My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Fathers hand. John 10:27-29. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:35-39 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6 Who are kept by the power of God through faith . . . I Peter 1:5 For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Romans 11:29

All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. John 6:37 And this is the Fathers will who hath sent me, that all of which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again on the last day. John 6:39 In whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Ephesians 1:13-14